Completed–EMPOWERMENT OF WHITE SARASWATI, (Yang Chen Marmo) at Ewam Choden on Sunday, MAY 27, 2018 at 1:00 pm
November 3, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
Venerable Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the empowerment and practice teachings of White Saraswati (Yang Chenmo and Pi wang kar mo). The power of White Saraswati brings intelligence and wisdom, with a focus on creative arts of all kinds. She protects the Buddhadharma and the practitioner.
There is no prerequisite. Everyone is welcome. A practice sadhana will be provided. The empowerment may be received as a blessing.
The date is Sunday, May 27, 2018.
The time is 1:00 p.m. Please arrive earlier to register at the door.
The requested donation is $30.00. Dana (offerings) to the Lama and attending monastics are separate.
Cancelled for a while–Ewam Choden MEMBERS MEETING, some time later in 2018
November 2, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Uncategorized
Sorry for any inconvenience. The Ewam Choden Board of Directors has to postpone the annual Members Meeting because we’re busy preparing for the visit of His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin in May. Members, friends, students, and any interested people may email Ewam Choden with any questions and for more information. We do need volunteers to help with the event.
Thank you.
Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF VAJRAPANI BHUTADAMARA ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 at EWAM CHODEN
November 1, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the empowerment of the Vajrapani Bhutadamara.
Vajrapani (Tibetan: chag na dor je. English: the Vajra Holder) is the wrathful-appearing Bodhisattva, representing the power of all Buddhas, who protects the Dharma and practitioners in various ways in his different forms. As caretaker and guardian of all the Tantras, he is special for removing the various types of obstacles that can arise during intensive practice as well as simply removing obstructions on the path of a practitioner. This particular form, the Vajrapani Bhutadamara, is the “one who Subdues Demons.” He stops discordant conditions and obstacles, and the harms of all kinds of spirits and demons from above, below, and in the middle.
DATE: Sunday, September 23, 2018
TIME: 1:00 pm Please arrive early to register at the door.
REQUESTED DONATION: $30. Offering to the Lama is separate.
A practice sadhana will be given, but the empowerment may be taken as a blessing.
Everyone is welcome. There is no requirement or pre-registration.
Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF WHITE TARA at THARPA CHO LING, Upper Lake, Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 12:00 noon
November 1, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
The Venerable Lama Kunga, Ngor Thartse Rinpoche, will bestow the precious Tantric empowerment of White Tara.
White Tara is an emanation of Great Compassion.
She is a deity that provides long life to those who practice her meditation. She enables long life because she blesses a person to make wise and ethical choices that provide for longevity. Receiving this empowerment is like obtaining a spiritual friend with great capabilities to help one in life. The empowerment can be taken as a daily practice or as an auspicious blessing, like a seed to ripen later. A meditation guide will be offered at the Empowerment.
DAY — Saturday, June 30th, 2018 TIME–12:00 noon
The donation requested for this rare event is $30.00.
LOCATION — THARPA CHO LING, 2225 Ladder Ridge Road, Upper Lake, Ca. (This is about 2 1/2 hours from the inner S.F. Bay area.) Email Ewam Choden for driving directions. info@ewamchoden.org
For other information please phone Max Butler at 707-275-9435 or email: virupa@hotmail.com
Completed– EMPOWERMENT OF AMITABHA and TEACHING ON PHOWA Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 at Upper Lake, CA
October 26, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
EMPOWERMENT OF AMITABHA BUDDHA
Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche has kindly agreed to bestow the Empowerment of Amitabha, the Buddha of the western paradise, Sukhavati. The empowerment and subsequent practice can assure rebirth in Sukhavati, the Western Pure Land. One of the five Dhyani Buddhas, Amitabha transmutes desire into discriminating awareness. Through the practice, one is connected with his power and gains greater clarity in life activities and decisions, especially those related to desire.
INTRODUCTION TO PHOWA
Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will offer an introduction to the practice of Phowa. This is the practice that can be done at the time of death to send one’s consciousness to a Buddhist paradise, such as, Sukhavati, instead of passing through the Bardo.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
TIMES
The Empowerment will begin at 10:00 am.
Potluck Lunch together at about noon.
The Phowa Teaching will begin at 1:00 pm
DONATION
The requested donation for the day is $40.00. Dana (offering) to the Lama is separate.
LOCATION (This is about 2 1/2 hours by car from the SF Bay area.)
Tharpa Cho Ling (This is Ewam Choden’s retreat center.)
2225 Ladder Ridge Road, Upper Lake, CA
For information, please phone Max Butler at 707-275-9435.
AMITABHA BUDDHA (image thanks to HimalayanArt.org, item no. 50071)
Completed—EMPOWERMENT OF BLACK MANJUSHRI on at Ewam Choden on Sunday, June 24, 2018
July 30, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow the empowerment and teaching of BLACK MANJUSHRI at Ewam Choden on Sunday, June 24, 2018, at 1:00 p.m.
Manjushri is the Bodhisattva of transcendental wisdom. In general, the practice of Manjushri cuts ignorance and delusion, and opens the mind of wisdom. Additionally, the Black Manjushri, a more wrathful form, is a powerful force against serious illnesses, obstacles, fears, obscurations, all kinds of negative forces, and a protector of traveling.
The requested donation is $30. and dana (personal offering) to the Lama is separate. Please arrive early to register, and be considerate of neighbors when parking. This event is open to everyone.
Black Manjushri
COMPLETED – LOSAR TIBETAN NEW YEAR — Oracle Soup Party
February 6, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
Everyone is welcome to a LOSAR potluck party at Ewam Choden on Friday, February 24th at 7:00 pm. The Oracle Soup provides special dumplings in which your unique fortune can be found.
UPCOMING EMPOWERMENTS AT EWAM CHODEN
February 6, 2017 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Empowerments
Empowerments to be bestowed by Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche aren’t yet scheduled. In February 2017, there are Losar events and in March 2017, Lama Kunga will be in India, returning on the 24th. An empowerment schedule will be posted as soon as it is available. If you have a special request, please send an email to Ewam Choden.
COMPLETED – MAITREYA FESTIVAL with BLESSING of Maitreya Buddha-NOV 5TH, 2016 at Tharpa Cho Ling
October 19, 2016 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
There will be a Maitreya Festival in Upper Lake, California. Everyone is welcome
The Maitreya festival will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 5th at Tharpa Cho Ling. First, Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche will kindly bestow a Maitreya Empowerment blessing for which a donation will be requested. After the empowerment there will be a circumambulation of the Tharpa Cho Ling land. The parade will consist of persons blowing conches, ringing bells, bearing incense, holding banners, umbrellas, statues and 12 volumes of the Prajnaparamita Sutra. After the circumambulations are completed, participants will sit down to a potluck feast. The focus of the festival is World peace, loving kindness and the prayer that Maitreya will come quickly to this ravaged planet. (information from Max Butler, Tharpa Cho Ling coordinator)
THARPA CHO LING is Ewam Choden’s retreat center in Upper Lake, California. It is described on the website home page. After it was created, a local sangha group formed around it. These members hold a weekly Saturday morning Chenrezig meditation in the beautiful shrine room. Periodically, Lama Kunga Rinpoche goes there to lead the meditation, and occasionally gives empowerments. This Maitreya Festival with an Empowerment is a rare opportunity.
The location in Upper Lake is about 2 1/2 hours by car from the Bay area. If you are interested in attending, please send an email to Ewam Choden for directions. (info@ewamchoden.org)
completed–PRAYERS TO COMMEMORATE SACHEN KUNGA NYINGPO, Sunday, Nov. 13 at 7:00 pm
October 17, 2016 by bhockman
Filed under Completed Special Events
Ven. Lama Kunga Rinpoche and members of Ewam Choden will join the Tibetan Sakya Community for a memorial of the great Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (Tibetan: ས་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་) on the day of his Parinirvana. Everyone is welcome. The day is Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016. The starting time 7:00 pm. The location is Ewam Choden.
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo was the first of the great five patriarchs of the Sakya lineage. The son of Khon Konchok Gyalpo, he was the 3rd Sakya Trizin. He lived from 1092 to 1158. When he was still a youth, meditating in retreat under the guidance of Bari Lotsawa, he saw Manjushri and received from him the teaching known as, Lojong Shenpa Shidrel or Mind Training of Parting from the Four Attachments.
If you are attached to this life, you are not a true spiritual practitioner;
If you are attached to saṃsāra, you have no renunciation;
If you are attached to your own self-interest, you have no bodhicitta;
If there is grasping, you do not have the View.
